Noun

(en noun)

Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.

* 1989 , Saral Jhingran, Aspects of Hindu morality , page 35:

A theistic version of the above doctrine of transmigratory existence is presented best in the Bhagavadgit? which compares the rebirth of the soul in another body to changing of clothes,

Revival, reinvigoration.

* 2009 , Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century :

And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before,

Spiritual renewal.

* 2000 , Joseph Stoutzenberger, Celebrating Sacraments , page 132:

The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life.

* 2011 , Chad T. Pierce, Spirits and the Proclamation of Christ , page 233:

Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.

Noun

(en noun)

In Tibetan Buddhism, a high-ranking lama who can choose the manner of his or her rebirth.

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